Released September 1990 Artist Joe Jackson Label A&M Records | Stepping Out The Very Best of Joe Jackson (1990) Laughter & Lust (1991) Release date 10 September 1990 Genres Rock music, New wave | |
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Producer Steve Jensen and Martin Kirkup Similar Joe Jackson albums, New wave albums | ||
Stepping Out: The Very Best of Joe Jackson is a compilation album from the English musician Joe Jackson. The songs, arranged in chronological order, are taken from nine of his first twelve albums, all of which were released on the A&M Records label. Stepping Out: The Very Best of Joe Jackson reached No. 7 in the UK Albums Chart in October 1990. By this time Jackson had parted company with A&M, with his next few releases being on the Virgin Records label.
Contents
In his book, The Great Rock Discography, music historian Martin C. Strong awards the album 8 out of 10.
Track Listing
The LP release did not include the songs "Beat Crazy" and "Home Town".
Production and songwriting credits
Based on the track numbering from the CD version of the album, the songs were produced by: tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4 by David Kershenbaum; tracks 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 by Joe Jackson and David Kershenbaum; tracks 5, 6, 14 and 15 by Joe Jackson.
All tracks were written by Joe Jackson, except for "Jumpin' Jive", penned in 1939 by Cab Calloway, Frank Froeba and Jack Palmer.
Photography by Janette Beckman.
Songs
1Is She Really Going Out With Him?3:36
2Fools In Love4:23
3I’m the Man3:59